Tracking Factors of Change in Tajikistan

12:30 Light Lunch
12:45-1:30pm Keynote Speaker

Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University)
Using a Wide Lens to Assess the Narrow Risk of Radical Islam in Tajikistan

1:30-3:30pm Panel I. Tajikistan Today: Security, Economy and Media

Chair: Sebastien Peyrouse (CAP, GWU)

Muzaffar Olimov (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan)
Afghan factor and the Threat of Islamic Radicalization: fear of a Tajik ‘Islamic Spring’?

Brent Hierman (Virginia Military Institute)
National Policy, Local Politics: Patterns of Land Reform in Tajikistan

Abdulfattoh Shafiev (Fulbright Scholar, GWU)
On/off, on/off. Blocking Social Media in Tajikistan

Kirgizbek Kanunov (Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society in Tajikistan)
Discussing the political system of Tajikistan

Discussion

3:30-4:00pm Coffee break

4:00-5:30pm Panel II. Islam and its transforming role in Tajik society

Chair: Marlene Laruelle (CAP, GWU)

Umed Babakhanov (Asia Plus)
The Evolution of Political Islam in Tajikistan: From the Trenches to the Parliament…and Back?

Saodat Olimova (Sharq Analytical Center)
Sharia and Tajikistan’s Law in the Mirror of Public Opinion

Khashayar Beigi (University of California, Berkeley)
Theological Geography and Tajik Migrant Mosques in Russia

Discussion